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Published by vdewit on April 28th, 2009
Trip Details
Trip Activity: 
Scramble
Attained Summit?: 
Yes
Location: 
Kananaskis Country
Trip Date: 
September 5, 2006
Summit Elevation: 
3,179m
Summit Elevation (ft): 
10,401ft
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Interesting Facts: 
(info from peakfinder.com) Named in 1918. Sarrail, General Maurice Paul Emmanuel (General Sarrail was commander of the French Third Army during WW I.) Official name. First ascended in 1930 by Katie Gardiner, guided by Walter Feuz. Journal reference CAJ 19-65.

Trip Report

After dropping the big packs and drinking some much needed Gatorade we put on the (extremely) light day packs and backtracked along the trail towards Mount Sarrail. We only had to backtrack for about 5 minutes before spotting an obvious grass / slab gully giving us access to Sarrail's lower slopes. On hindsight we should have hit the main shoulder sooner, but we traversed below the ridge for a while before finally heading up to the shoulder and finding the trail.

Mount Sarrail is not a technical peak, but after climbing almost 500 meters vertical with big packs under a warm sun, the extra 1000 meters were a bit of work! The views were spoiled a bit by smoke but we enjoyed the summit in windless, sunny, warm weather. After almost an hour on the summit it was time to head back down and finish our backpack into Aster Lake.


Rod heads up the lower slopes of Mount Sarrail.

Jon looks up at the summit and the glacier.

Rod comes over a bump on the ridge to Sarrail's summit. Aster Lake, and Mounts Northover, Sarrail and Cordonnier are in the background.

Kananaskis Lakes and Rawson Lake from the summit of Sarrail.

Jon and Rod on the summit of Mount Sarrail with Mount Foch in the background.

Summit shot.

The royal group with Mount Northover in front.

Jon on the summit of Mount Sarrail.

Mount Foch.